Squidbilly
Well-Known Member
Your top colas won't grow to the side...in fact they will want to keep growing up. Usually I tie something down and by the next day it's sticking straight up, just in a slightly different spot.
Look at your plants, see where it makes the most sense to do that. Every time you pull something down hormones in the plant tell it to send something else up. After you start doing it and seeing how the plants respond and you'll get an idea of what you should be doing. It's starts making sense when you see it in action. The trick is to create multiple colas/bud sites with minimal stress the plant.
I use a combination of LST, topping, fim, and super cropping. My goal is to create as many colas/bud sites as possible since I do SROG. I will use one or all of these methods. It depends on how the plants respond. I'll start LST, then when it starts to bush out a little bit I'll top some of quicker growing tops, not just to give me two instead of one at each site I do it, but also to slow those higher tops down. While they are recovering from the topping(or fim) the other tops have a chance to catch up. At this point I'll have a little bush with a fairly even canopy of tops/bud sites.
Topping a few nodes down from the top is something I've been experimenting with. It's insane how it makes the lower branches shoot up instead of just giving you two new tops. That's why I suggested taking her down if heights is an issue. I think it would actually increase yeild if you gave them at least a week to recover.
Look at your plants, see where it makes the most sense to do that. Every time you pull something down hormones in the plant tell it to send something else up. After you start doing it and seeing how the plants respond and you'll get an idea of what you should be doing. It's starts making sense when you see it in action. The trick is to create multiple colas/bud sites with minimal stress the plant.
I use a combination of LST, topping, fim, and super cropping. My goal is to create as many colas/bud sites as possible since I do SROG. I will use one or all of these methods. It depends on how the plants respond. I'll start LST, then when it starts to bush out a little bit I'll top some of quicker growing tops, not just to give me two instead of one at each site I do it, but also to slow those higher tops down. While they are recovering from the topping(or fim) the other tops have a chance to catch up. At this point I'll have a little bush with a fairly even canopy of tops/bud sites.
Topping a few nodes down from the top is something I've been experimenting with. It's insane how it makes the lower branches shoot up instead of just giving you two new tops. That's why I suggested taking her down if heights is an issue. I think it would actually increase yeild if you gave them at least a week to recover.
